Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 85 52
Rank change year-on-year -33 -33 -12
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,162 1,854 2,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 3.28% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.67% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 792 1,041 1,889
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,375 £112,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,896 50,574 45,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.87% 89.56% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,687 25,549 34,991
10th Percentile £28,450 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,924 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.05% +4.76% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -20 1,081 £77,500 +10.71% 411
London +5 605 £85,000 - 175
UK excluding London -80 502 £70,000 +7.69% 318
Work from Home -28 492 £75,000 +11.11% 269
North of England -19 219 £70,000 +14.37% 81
North West -1 121 £70,000 +11.11% 48
South East -90 104 £70,000 - 114
Yorkshire -12 83 £75,000 +22.54% 19
Midlands -18 62 £75,000 +15.38% 41
South West -64 51 £62,500 - 40
West Midlands +9 35 £70,000 +12.00% 24
Scotland -56 32 £66,000 -5.71% 16
East of England -18 29 £77,500 +34.78% 24
East Midlands -23 25 £77,500 +19.23% 17
North East -8 15 £61,350 +16.86% 14
Wales -16 5 £55,200 +10.40% 11
Northern Ireland -14 2 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (2.07%) Apache
2 24 (2.07%) Confluence
2 24 (2.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 23 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 11 (0.95%) JBoss
6 10 (0.86%) Appian
6 10 (0.86%) CMS
7 8 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.60%) nginx
9 6 (0.52%) IIS
10 5 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.086%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.086%) Camunda
13 1 (0.086%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.086%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.086%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (1.89%) Maya
2 14 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.77%) Endur
2 9 (0.77%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) Shopify
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.086%) Actimize
8 1 (0.086%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.086%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.086%) Quorum
8 1 (0.086%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.086%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 613 (52.75%) AWS
2 557 (47.93%) Azure
3 193 (16.61%) Serverless
4 191 (16.44%) GCP
5 158 (13.60%) SaaS
6 126 (10.84%) GitHub
7 124 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
8 81 (6.97%) Amazon S3
9 75 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
10 68 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
11 61 (5.25%) PaaS
12 58 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
13 51 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
14 48 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (3.53%) IaaS
16 38 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (3.27%) Power Platform
17 35 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
18 33 (2.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.86%) HTTP
1 10 (0.86%) Network Security
2 9 (0.77%) AMQP
3 4 (0.34%) WAN
4 3 (0.26%) Broadband
4 3 (0.26%) Internet
4 3 (0.26%) Multicast
5 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.17%) LAN
5 2 (0.17%) SNMP
5 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 1 (0.086%) Firewall
6 1 (0.086%) MQTT
6 1 (0.086%) TCAP
6 1 (0.086%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (14.46%) NoSQL
2 166 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 146 (12.56%) MongoDB
4 137 (11.79%) SQL Server
5 66 (5.68%) Relational Database
6 62 (5.34%) DynamoDB
7 55 (4.73%) MySQL
8 43 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (2.50%) Redis
11 26 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.98%) Big Data
12 23 (1.98%) Power BI
12 23 (1.98%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.46%) Tableau
14 16 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (1.29%) DB2
16 13 (1.12%) Data Lake
17 11 (0.95%) BigQuery
18 9 (0.77%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 159 (13.68%) Git
2 126 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 58 (4.99%) JIRA
4 47 (4.04%) GitLab
5 43 (3.70%) JUnit
5 43 (3.70%) Selenium
6 35 (3.01%) Cucumber
7 28 (2.41%) JMeter
7 28 (2.41%) TeamCity
8 26 (2.24%) Mockito
9 21 (1.81%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.81%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.46%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (1.12%) CircleCI
12 12 (1.03%) Maven
13 9 (0.77%) Postman
14 8 (0.69%) git-flow
14 8 (0.69%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 341 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 331 (28.49%) Finance
3 113 (9.72%) Banking
4 107 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (8.95%) Law
6 69 (5.94%) Public Sector
7 60 (5.16%) Retail
8 47 (4.04%) Games
9 44 (3.79%) Financial Institution
10 33 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.67%) French Language
12 30 (2.58%) Dutch Language
12 30 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (2.58%) Marketing
13 29 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (2.41%) Billing
15 26 (2.24%) Back Office
16 23 (1.98%) Legal
17 22 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (1.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 399 (34.34%) Developer
2 261 (22.46%) Senior
3 240 (20.65%) Architect
4 192 (16.52%) Software Engineer
5 181 (15.58%) Lead
6 118 (10.15%) Solutions Architect
7 103 (8.86%) Java Developer
8 100 (8.61%) .NET Developer
9 86 (7.40%) Senior Developer
10 85 (7.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 62 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
12 58 (4.99%) Lead Developer
13 57 (4.91%) Java Engineer
14 49 (4.22%) Software Developer
15 44 (3.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 41 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
16 41 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 40 (3.44%) Lead Architect
18 36 (3.10%) Java Software Engineer
19 34 (2.93%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (26.51%) .NET
2 279 (24.01%) React
3 248 (21.34%) RESTful
4 198 (17.04%) Spring
5 195 (16.78%) REST
6 177 (15.23%) Kafka
7 172 (14.80%) Spring Boot
8 140 (12.05%) AngularJS
8 140 (12.05%) Node.js
9 122 (10.50%) .NET Core
10 100 (8.61%) HTML
11 75 (6.45%) .NET Framework
12 71 (6.11%) ASP.NET
13 69 (5.94%) CSS
14 64 (5.51%) ASP.NET Web API
15 58 (4.99%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (4.73%) Entity Framework
16 55 (4.73%) Middleware
17 53 (4.56%) Hibernate
18 51 (4.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 308 (26.51%) Cloud Native
2 177 (15.23%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (10.59%) Enterprise Software
4 97 (8.35%) Product Ownership
5 52 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 31 (2.67%) Virtual Team
9 28 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (2.32%) Algorithms
11 24 (2.07%) AI Agents
11 24 (2.07%) Blockchain
11 24 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
12 22 (1.89%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.46%) Low-Code
13 17 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.46%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.29%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.20%) IoT
16 12 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.65%) Linux
2 25 (2.15%) Windows
3 21 (1.81%) Android
4 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.26%) CentOS
5 3 (0.26%) Debian
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.086%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (51.81%) Agile
2 536 (46.13%) CI/CD
3 494 (42.51%) DevOps
4 360 (30.98%) Software Engineering
5 270 (23.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 267 (22.98%) Containerisation
7 252 (21.69%) AI
8 235 (20.22%) Mentoring
9 228 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
10 205 (17.64%) Event-Driven
11 190 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 174 (14.97%) Computer Science
13 164 (14.11%) Roadmaps
14 158 (13.60%) TDD
15 157 (13.51%) Scrum
16 155 (13.34%) Test Automation
17 144 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
18 138 (11.88%) Clean Code
19 130 (11.19%) SDLC
20 121 (10.41%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 386 (33.22%) Java
2 299 (25.73%) C#
3 289 (24.87%) Python
4 275 (23.67%) SQL
5 260 (22.38%) JavaScript
6 200 (17.21%) TypeScript
7 60 (5.16%) Go
8 37 (3.18%) Shell Script
9 27 (2.32%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.98%) C++
11 21 (1.81%) PHP
12 18 (1.55%) C
13 17 (1.46%) Bash
14 16 (1.38%) PowerShell
14 16 (1.38%) Ruby
15 14 (1.20%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.20%) Rust
16 6 (0.52%) Bicep
16 6 (0.52%) Delphi
16 6 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 205 (17.64%) Degree
2 129 (11.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 92 (7.92%) Security Cleared
4 67 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 66 (5.68%) AWS Certification
6 59 (5.08%) Master's Degree
7 43 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 39 (3.36%) Azure Certification
9 35 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.20%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.77%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.77%) PMP
14 6 (0.52%) CISM
14 6 (0.52%) CISSP
15 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.66%) QA
2 24 (2.07%) GDPR
3 21 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.46%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.95%) IFRS
5 11 (0.95%) SLA
6 9 (0.77%) IFRS 17
6 9 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.77%) NIST
6 9 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.77%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.69%) EMIR
8 5 (0.43%) NCSC
9 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.34%) WCAG
10 3 (0.26%) SEPA
11 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.17%) PSD2
11 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 360 (30.98%) Docker
2 15 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.086%) HDFS
5 1 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 343 (29.52%) Kubernetes
2 173 (14.89%) Terraform
3 44 (3.79%) Grafana
4 42 (3.61%) Ansible
5 27 (2.32%) Kibana
6 18 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.12%) Argo
9 5 (0.43%) Puppet
10 4 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.34%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.26%) Istio
12 2 (0.17%) Rancher
13 1 (0.086%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.086%) Nagios
Vendors
1 188 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.51%) Oracle
3 29 (2.50%) Guidewire
4 26 (2.24%) Google
4 26 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 26 (2.24%) SAP
5 22 (1.89%) Splunk
6 21 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.64%) OpenAI
8 18 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
9 14 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
11 12 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.03%) Duck Creek
12 11 (0.95%) IBM
13 10 (0.86%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.86%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.86%) Software AG
14 9 (0.77%) Red Hat